The NFL Couldn’t Play By Teachers’ Rules

Fran Tarkenton has an interesting op-ed in The Wall Street Journal in which he envisions the NFL being run like American public schools.

Each player’s salary is based on how long he’s been in the league. It’s about tenure, not talent. The same scale is used for every player, no matter whether he’s an All-Pro quarterback or the last man on the roster. For every year a player’s been in this NFL, he gets a bump in pay. The only difference between Tom Brady and the worst player in the league is a few years of step increases. And if a player makes it through his third season, he can never be cut from the roster until he chooses to retire, except in the most extreme cases of misconduct.

Read the whole thing, he segues from the football analogy to point out how the current model isn’t working.

But what if the NFL played by teachers’ rules? Unless it was nationalized, it would go out of business. Watching football is voluntary. It’s funded by the market. People will stop buying merchandise and game tickets. Advertising sales will dry up as fewer people watch the games on television. They would run out of funding in no time. Professional football in America would become like soccer – a game hardly anybody watches.

The only reason the teachers’ unions get away with their scheme is that funding public schools is involuntary; and unless parents have the means to home school their children or send them to private schools, attendance is also involuntary.

I know teachers who are well into their 70’s taking up valuable teaching slots, making exorbitant pay and rather bizarre in their teaching methods and teaching content.

The whole PUBLIC school system is broken because:

1. They are run by public unions
2. Who teach communism and political corretness rather then reading, riting and rithmatic.
3. Demographics undoubtedly makes the entire public school system unfair and inequitable when inner city Los Angeles children try to compete with Beverly Hills school districts.
4. National means testing and national scoring such as No Child left behind fundamentally flaws the teaching process where teachers and school districts are forced to teach to a test rather then teach to the children.
5. And lastly the destruction of our culture by the Communist left who has done everything they can to kill the family ethic, God, patriotism and replace it with PORN, DRUGS, FACEBOOK, GAY and LESBIAN activity, and a welfare state has ruined any chance of a nation excelling in schools as the children given to our school system already come from broken homes, confused cultures and inequitable social settings.

The Progressive communists have done a FINE JOB of destroying our culture and family life and the libertarians amongst our conservative cause are aiding them by insisting that it is none of our business what people do and we should stay out of social issues.

Well it has worked. This country is FOOKED. period. No way we recover from this when our own conservative base no longer wants to battle the destruction of our culture, the family and our morals along with the progressives who are reveling in its destruction and working at every turn with HOLLYWOOD, TELEVISON and SOCIAL MEDIA to brainwash a nation into a welfare state of “the government OWES me.”